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by pfdietz 1057 days ago
There's vastly more than 1 bit of information in those proteins. If there was just 1 bit, then that would mean that any randomly generated protein would have a 50% chance of having those properties (which is false.)
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The question was, how accurate does replication need to be, in a replicating system with selection. My argument is that if you do not need perfect copies, and if you can make large numbers of copies, replication does not need to be very accurate to produce offspring that can continue exhibiting some property that can be selected for.

It seems like your perspective is more information theoretic, and does not include selection.